The nomination of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General is worrisome but court battles over states’ rights and decisive voter support for legal cannabis make tough enforcement problematic for the Trump Administration. A month after the election, marijuana legalization advocates still await some clear indication of President-elect Donald Trump’s official stance toward legal cannabis. Voters in eight states joined the legalization movement on Nov. 8. Those included two of the largest: California approved recreational marijuana while Florida expanded the use of [...]

(FOX 46) – A growing number of North Carolinians are fighting for medical marijuana in their state. Following the November 2016 election, 29 states and Washington D.C. either allow medical marijuana or have voted to allow it. Medical marijuana is illegal in North Carolina. “It’s a miracle drug to me,” U.S. military veteran Perry Parks said. Parks, who lives in Rockingham, N.C., uses marijuana to treat PTSD. “Most of the soldiers don’t talk about it because it’s too ugly to [...]

Recreational marijuana measures passed Tuesday in: California, Massachusetts, Nevada and Maine. Medical cannabis has been legalized in North Dakota, Arkansas, Florida and Montana (again). The only “L” that was taken occured in the state of Arizona. Although there are already healthy medical marijuana laws in place, voters opted “no” on any further marijuana legislation. This brings the new total of recreational states to 8, plus DC, and raises the total number of medical marijuana states within the US to [...]

An Australian man took disposing of evidence to a new level when he ate cannabis he had hidden up his butt before he could be properly searched by police. Hamish Macintyre-Cathles, 37, came before Nowra Local Court on drug supply charges on Wednesday, during which time the bizarre allegations were aired. Police were speaking with the occupants of a vehicle on the afternoon of May 16 this year when Macintyre-Cathles, a passenger in the car, was seen to hide two small brown containers between the seats. They [...]

The Sharks have seen it all. Entrepreneurs of all stripes vie for their cash in the Tank, and sometimes their businesses are just plain weird. There was the hiker who turns roasted crickets into energy bars, the husband and wife on a mission to change the way we poop, one Squatty Potty at a time, and, who could forget, that guy who badly wants to draw a cat for you. One kind of business that hasn’t been pitched on “Shark [...]

Big Pharma’s sponsorship of anti-cannabis campaigns have totaled over $800 million over the past decade. What are they so afraid of? (Big Pharma is Paying to Block Marijuana Legalization – Weed Finder® News | Video Credit: ATTN)

Are these new Vapen cannabis inhalers the next step in the evolution of cannabinoid uptake-methods for the human anatomy? Let us know what you think in the comments below! (Are Cannabis Inhalers the Answer to Vape Pens? – Weed Finder™ News | Video Credit: NowThis Weed and Vapen)

Nearly half of the US has already legalized marijuana for either medical or recreational use. This November, nine states could continue the trend. Of those nine states, five have ballot initiatives that could result in legal recreational use, including Massachusetts, Maine, Arizona and Nevada. Most significantly, California could legalize recreational use — thus making the entire West Coast a legal enclave for recreational cannabis. All the initiatives below will be voted on this November, alongside the presidential election. Here’s everything [...]

While Brock Turner spent 3 months in jail for sexual assault, Jeff Mizanskey spent 21 years for marijuana. This is more than enough proof for us to acknowledge that the justice system is broken. (3 Months for Sexual Assault vs 21 Years for Marijuana…Is This Justice? – Weed Finder™ News | Article Credit: ATTN)

Millions of consumers treat Weedmaps like the Yelp for pot, relying on the Irvine company as their definitive guide to marijuana dispensaries, varieties and doctors. But a key feature — user reviews of pot businesses — may be tainted by thousands of potentially fraudulent comments, a flaw in the company’s software revealed. Reviews on the site are pseudonymous, and visitors reasonably expect that each is written by a unique customer. But data that Weedmaps mistakenly leaked suggests a large proportion of a glowing remarks come from individual users leaving multiple reviews of a [...]

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department cannot prosecute medical marijuana businesses if those businesses are in compliance with applicable state laws. The court had been asked to rule on whether the Justice Department had proper authority to press forward with federal drug charges in 10 cases involving medical marijuana dispensaries and growers in California and Washington state. In 2014, Congress passed a bipartisan measure, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, prohibiting the Justice Department from using federal funds to prevent states from ”implementing [...]

LAYTON, Utah - 18-year-old Tanis Lloyd Ukena has been arrested for allegedly tampering with a Police Sgt.’s drink, by spiking it with methamphetamines and THC. The arrest was made after the officer was admitted into a hospital after tasting “chemicals” in his drink, and feeling uneasy. after seeing him on the surveillance video. Sgt. Clint Bobrowski said the surveillance video from Subway shows what happened. “The suspect was seen taking the sergeant’s order, filling his drink,” Sgt. Bobrowski said. [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new synthetic marijuana. The liquid formulation of dronabinol — a synthetic form of the psychoactive compound in cannabis: tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), was officially approved a few weeks ago. Allegedly, the synthetic cannabis will be sold under the name of Syndros and is classified Schedule III substance under the Controlled Substances Act. Dronabinol has been sold since the mid-1980s under the name, Marinol. The difference between Syndros and Marinol is that Syndros is [...]

The Bay Area just reached the highest place in a recently compiled list of America’s highest cities. According to a government health organization, San Francisco is home to the greatest number of cannabis smokers in the Nation. This recent study was produced by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and discovered more than 15 percent of San Franciscans (not counting children below the age of 12) have smoked weed within the last month. Colorado and Oregon, where [...]

At 10 months of age, Kalel Santiago of Puerto Rico was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma. He endured chemotherapy, radiation treatments, and surgery for two years—and survived. Then he was diagnosed with something permanent: severe autism that disabled him from speaking. “While he was in the hospital, we noticed he didn’t speak at all and had some behavior that wasn’t right, like hand flapping, and walking on his toes,” his father Abiel Gomez Santiago told Yahoo News. [...]

A former California inmate facility has been approved as the location for a cannabis growing and processing operation. Last Thursday the Coalinga City Council voted on two local measures regarding marijuana, both of which have passed. The first measure, which passed in a 4-1 vote, allows compliant cannabis cultivation within city limits – effective immediately. Also passing council approval was a proposal to sell the cities dormant prison to Ocean Grown Extracts, who manufacture medical grade cannabis oil products. They [...]

Sean Parker, from Napster and Facebook fame, has financed and organized a rapidly-growing movement to legalize recreational cannabis in California. It was announced yesterday that a decision on whether the third-largest state in the U.S. is going to be next to legalize marijuana will officially happen in November. (Will California be the Next State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana? – Weed Finder™ News)

As suicide rates and rampant opioid addiction and abuse plagues our bravest and brightest, US elected officials have stabbed Veterans in the back yet again. How long will the men and women that place their life on the line for Freedom be denied safe access to medical marijuana? (Congress Denies US Veterans Access to Medical Cannabis – Weed Finder™ News)

Can medical marijuana help infants with terminal brain cancer? Dr. William Courtney says he has witnessed it happen. He exclaimed he was “quite a skeptic 5 or 6 years ago”, and that, “my youngest patient is 8 months old, and had a very massive centrally located inoperable brain tumor.” The child’s decided to ergo unconventional treatment by administering cannabis oil. “They were putting cannabis oil on the baby’s pacifier twice a day, increasing the dose… And within two months there [...]